So, I can't e-mail my masters thesis anymore via gmail. I was just about to send my adviser a copy after months of, well not showing much, and operating under his good faith that assumes I know what I'm doing
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Or manually split it. If you did it in Word, shouldn't be too hard to copy and past half of the document into a different file. Just send it over two emails. Alternatively, plenty of Word to PDF utilities are out there, and a simple text document shouldn't hit 28 megs in PDF unless you wrote Shogun. I've got a 60 page journal article sitting on my desktop that clocks in at under two megs.
Most of the hugeness of long Word documents is Word's poor handling of them, combined with the absolutely absurd amount of metadata Word feels compelled to hang onto. It's the word processing equivalent of a little old lady with a drawer full of little bits of string.
Probably a horrible suggestion at this stage in the game, but... have you considered Latex?
As an addendum, I just checked the filesize on my Laval journal. 228kb for 62 pages. Seriously, if you're running into filesize problems, you may want to consider it.
It apparently holds onto the additional data, even with a copy/paste.
Right now I'm either going to abuse the printers at work, or send it via WinRAR in a compressed form.
I'm also half not concerned, because my talks with my adviser tend to be less "let's see what you've got" and more "oh, those sources are good...here you want to also look at this" and I leave his office with three more books than I walked in with. I feel I'm on track and he feels I am to, based on our discussions about where the research points me.
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Most of the hugeness of long Word documents is Word's poor handling of them, combined with the absolutely absurd amount of metadata Word feels compelled to hang onto. It's the word processing equivalent of a little old lady with a drawer full of little bits of string.
Probably a horrible suggestion at this stage in the game, but... have you considered Latex?
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Right now I'm either going to abuse the printers at work, or send it via WinRAR in a compressed form.
I'm also half not concerned, because my talks with my adviser tend to be less "let's see what you've got" and more "oh, those sources are good...here you want to also look at this" and I leave his office with three more books than I walked in with. I feel I'm on track and he feels I am to, based on our discussions about where the research points me.
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